Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
Background: The Ensembl project produces updates to its comparative genomics resources with each of its several releases per year. During each release cycle approximately two week...
Jessica Severin, Kathryn Beal, Albert J. Vilella, ...
End-to-end predictability of operations is essential for many fixed-priority distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) applications, such as command and control systems, manufactu...
The interrelationship between software faults and failures is quite intricate and obtaining a meaningful characterization of it would definitely help the testing community in decid...
Sigrid Eldh, Sasikumar Punnekkat, Hans Hansson, Pe...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems have become ubiquitous and at present the BitTorrent (BT) based P2P systems are very popular and successful. It has been argued t...